Liparis tridens Kraenzl. 1900

Inflorescence and Plant in situ Cameroon Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Three Toothed Liparis

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi in rainforests at elevations around 900 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slightly swollen basally, ovoid, fresh green pseudobulbs carrying to 7, distichously arranged, smaller below larger above, oblong-lanceolate, very undulate margined leaves that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, terete, light green, 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, to 20 closely spaced flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Liparis hallei Szlach 1996; Liparis winkleri Schltr.1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968; Malawi Orchids Vol 1 La Croix 1983; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidacea Part 2 1984; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995; African Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlatcheko etal. 2010 drawing fide

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